Elizabeth Tudor Mary Queen of Scots

[ElizabethR] Elizabeth's daunting words over the death of Mary, Queen of Scots... It's intriguing that most of Elizabeth's life is threatened by "Marys"... Mary Tudor, her half-sister, in her earlier years and later, Mary Queen of Scots... I suppose that her grief is probably due to one of her innermost fears, that she would repeat the actions of her late father, Henry VIII, who had her mother (also a Queen) beheaded... Furthermore, Mary Tudor chose neither execution nor assassination despite plots made against Elizabeth when she was next-in-line to the throne...

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[MagdaPowerTrap]

is this glenda jackson playing elizabeth tudor?

[GeneLovesClassic1980]

@MagdaPowerTrap yes

[geoffpeterstrio]

great acting! which film is this from?

[GeneLovesClassic1980]

@geoffpeterstrio It's a 6-Part TV series, BBC Elizabeth R (1970)

[TCall2004]

Mary had to be one of the stupidest women in history.

One bad choice after another.

[GeneLovesClassic1980]

this proves that it takes more than noble/royal blood to become Queen. She gotta have brains & wits too!!!!

[SpringSummer2010]

I bet Elizabeth Tudor wasn't as forthright as she is often portrayed.

[racheal781]

@Hattaru burning is way worse it takes way longer to die

[telamon2011]

@DarlingNikki2

Well, as a rule, executed persons were not embalmed, as they were buried only minutes after the execution. However, this is where a bit of inaccuracy makes its way into this episode. Because she had been a reigning queen in her own right (not a spouse like Anne Boleyn or Catherine Howard), Mary WAS embalmed by order of Elizabeth, and from some accounts, her head reattached to her body. Her son, James I, would later have her corpse transferred to Westminster Abbey.

[telamon2011]

If you noticed when Paulet tells Elizabeth that Mary was wearing a wig with all white hair underneath, Elizabeth's anger diminishes a bit. She was always jealous of the beauty that Mary (nine years younger) possessed, as well as the fact that it was she and not Elizabeth who had been praised as the fashion trendsetter among European queens.

[criznueve]

@TCall2004 Mary was the polar opposite of Elizabeth. Mary was all heart and Elizabeth was all head.

[Hattaru]

@JeunFost I am so glad that you got it!!!, I do like Elizebeth but she was not inoccent, not at all, she saw Mary as a threat and she acted on it!!!. but you can say this that everthing in Elizebeths reign was all thanks to her parents "The Sins Of the Parents" one Spain did not like Elizebeth because she was prod just like her mother, and also what they did to Queen Cathrine of A, so she had that to deal with. Elizebeth was not at all inoccent and I wish people can see that.

[Hattaru]

I do remember somthing of this!!!, when he spoke about Mary still beging alive, even when they choped off her head, I remember somthing and reading somthing that, when the man did chop of her head, her head was still dagaling form the body, it was so terrifing because the lips did move!! I read something that they had to get a knife and cut the rest of her neck off, because the ax was not enough, oh how horrible!!!. death by ax or sword it truly was a horrible death to come by.

[faithoffaith]

lol chop chop